page_title: Time zone
section_title: UTC offsets worldwide
hierarchical_section_title: Time zone / UTC offsets worldwide
caption_attribution_description: English: It's a Solar Time Vs Standard Time Map of Timezones in the World.Español: Un mapamundi que contrapone los husos de hora solar y los de hora estándar.
context_page_description: A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time.
  Most of the time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time by a whole number of hours, but a few zones are offset by 30 or 45 minutes.
  Some higher latitude and temperate zone countries use daylight saving time for part of the year, typically by adjusting local clock time by an hour. Many land time zones are skewed toward the west of the corresponding nautical time zones. This also creates permanent daylight saving time effect.
context_section_description: XX = ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, XX- = parts of the country, N = North, S = South, UTC = Universal Coordinated Time, DST = Daylight Saving Time
caption: A great part of the world has a gap between the official time and the solar time
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